These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.
Steve Hackett
Recitation: by Male by Female
Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
Andrew Cuomo
SuccessMomentPoliticalLessonUse
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
Mel Brooks
DangerousRockLikeHeChris
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Robert Smithson
ArtWhiteLightsKindRoomGoing
Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.
Steve Blank
DetailsStrategyBuildIndustryHow
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
Robert Dallek
DemocracyBackGoingIdeaPakistan
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
Rita Mae Brown
MyselfThirtiesMiddleDidUntil
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
Russell Smith
FutureBookTelevisionArgumentKnow
It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs on the guitar when I was a teenager. 'Smelly Cat' is very easy. It's only about three chords.
Michelle Dockery
CharacterImpossibleGuitarFriends
'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.
Josh Trank
MeThinkElephantMediaPerfect
Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
Josie Maran
LifeBusinessAloneHusbandPartner
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.
Jonas Mekas
TreeMeBookLiteratureYouCinema
My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.
Don Kardong
JanuaryAmericanDistanceTopOut
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